I'm running out of space on my DVR and I have around ten or so episodes of BSG piled up that I haven't watched. The show, which I've always had something of a love/hate relationship with, pretty much jumped the shark for me when I watched the episodes where Xena is torturing Baltar and then decides to fall in love with him. It is one of the dumbest moments in TV history, as far as I'm concerned. I haven't really felt the desire to watch the show since.

Does the show get any better? Will I be missing anything really good if I dump them? I like the setup of the series enough, it's just that half the time I feel the writers are flipping the bird at the viewers by throwing in some really juvenile stuff.

Its out now on bittorrent, and if you thought a show jumped the shark in spectacular fashion before, oh boy.

I think BSG's crew think the best way to make a show is have a good starting 3-4 episodes, then make 10+ of fluff bullshit, then make the finale just a complete clusterspank of plotline chaos and red herrings...just so the viewers are so pissed/annoying/confused, they have to watch the beginning of the next season.

I think BSG's crew think the best way to make a show is have a good starting 3-4 episodes, then make 10+ of fluff bullshit, then make the finale just a complete clusterspank of plotline chaos and red herrings...

Yeah, the pacing of episodes is probably the biggest issue I have with the show. Look at Season 2. They spend seven episodes resolving the frst season cliffhanger (the whole Kobol planet stuff), then they have a bunch of questionable mid-season shows, then by the end of the season they skip ahead a year with no warning. I don't see why they couldn't have dropped a few of those shows, found New Caprica toward the end of the season and then spend a few episodes showing the Colonials setting up lives on the planet before the Cylons find them.

I'm beginning to think you should quit while you're ahead myself, and I'm a pretty big BSG supporter.

At the risk of pissing off jblank - I just can't believe how a show can go from so unbelievably great to mediocre in such a short period of time. If I didn't drool so lamely over Grace Park, I probably would be done with it. But alas, I am a drooling fool.

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LD

"Let your enemies fear, for a harlequin of the Laughing God dances at your side."

I've been watching the Dresden Files and enjoy it. It's not a great show by any means, but the guys who play Bob and Harry do a good job. LD, I believe there was an episode a few weeks ago that featured a hot Asian chick running an insurance scam.

Now I'm happy to not watch the show. Oh, how it would have saved me many moons of pain had I not watched Alias. Admittedly, the first two seasons kicked major ass but from there it took such a sharp nosedive into suck that I actually felt pissed off for watching the past two years. It takes a lot to make me that angry.

Dresden took a serious turn for the worse due to a poorly written epside, then rebounded a lot with an episode that shows that some of the writers were actually reading Jim Butcher's books.

Now, it's been bouncing between mediocre and okay.

I don't like how every episode of Woman of the Week for Dresden, it's getting pretty old despite how much eye candy is being shown. It's like they're not sure if they want to be a well written supernatural mystery detective show, or yet another mediocre scifi/fantasy excuse to show up women in tight outfits.

I'm getting so tired of Days of our Battlestar. I'd like a space fight to happen at some point. Can only take so many random camera shots of space and then just go back inside. For being a show set in space, I'm seeing a lack of fucking space, it's like just random moments in the show "Look we're still in space!" and back inside to whoever is now hating who of the week.

Yeah, that's the main reason BSG didnt' really grab me after the first season or so. I was really expecting more desparate space battles, and a whole hell of a lot less 'guess who the cylon is now!' crap.

If they stuck with "The frakking Cylons could be on us the next day" and were fighting them off all the time it would of been great but they got into the whole human cylon prophecy and intership relations. I mean yeah those can be interesting, but don't make the entire show about that. I'm sure everyone was interested with the mini series and the 1st season because of the fighting and the suspense. Now they are saying "Oh who are the 5 cylons?" and I'm sure is just going "Why do I care who the 5 cylons are?"

I'm beginning to think you should quit while you're ahead myself, and I'm a pretty big BSG supporter.

At the risk of pissing off jblank - I just can't believe how a show can go from so unbelievably great to mediocre in such a short period of time. If I didn't drool so lamely over Grace Park, I probably would be done with it. But alas, I am a drooling fool.

Why would that piss me off? I've been a huge critic of this season, which they should be ashamed of. It is definitely mediocre now.

We have the entire second half of season 3 DVRd. We'd been putting off watching it because they don't take up much room, and we were watching other things. We finally sat down to watch it tonight. All through the first episode, I was trying to remind myself what was going on, and why I should care about it. We started the next one, and realized that the DVR had missed the first episode of the second half of this season. I'm pretty sure at this point, I don't care enough about the series to go find the missing episode and then watch the rest.

I definitely agree that the show changed focus away from the human/cylon conflict and has gone way too far into the politics and relationship melodrama, and I don't want to watch that. I want to watch big space battles.

So I guess our new term for jumping the shark is when a character gets fat?

Anyway, now I like character oriented shows, which is why I liked a lot of the episodes that didn't involve combat, and did involve a lot of relationship stuff. But this is also a scifi space show, and they really went on too long without a decent conflict.

All the drive just went out of the show, and some characters were just left floundering (Starbuck for example). Well now Starbuck is dead and the Cylons are back. Let's see if the season finale can get things back on track.